Massachusetts RMV question

A friend of mine tried the other day to renew his Massachusetts state ID at the RMV web site. He tried to use his Missouri birth certificate at the part where the RMV asks for proof of legal right to be in the US. The problem is the RMV asks for 'registration number' on their web site, and the box only accepts up to nine digits. The number on the front of his birth certificate is in XXX-XX-XXXXXX format, which adds up to eleven digits. There's a number printed on the back of his cert too, but it doesn't say what that number is. I think it's six or seven digits, though.

What the hell is the registration number for RMV purposes? When I try to look for 'birth certificate registration number' ninety percent of the results I get are Australian.

For Friday Five.

1. Have you ever been in a hurricane or typhoon? Which one, when and where?

Gloria, the September 1985 one, in New York City. Hugo, 1989, indirectly (mostly in the form of SO MUCH RAIN). Floyd, 1999, Wayne, New Jersey; I was working for the Red Cross at the time and was operating a storm shelter when Floyd passed through. Poking one's head out the door during the time the eye is passing over is a weird experience. Irene, 2011, my parents' house in New Jersey.

Sandy. Hoboken. 2012.

Did you know that when floodwater reaches a car's electrical system, the car's alarm system (assuming it has one, of course) starts going off? And doesn't stop until the battery runs out completely?

Did you know you can hear that over 90 MPH winds?

2. Have you ever been near an erupting volcano? Which one, when and where?

No. Thankfully.

3. Are there tornadoes where you live? Has a tornado come near you?

Not at the moment, but there've been tornado touchdowns in Massachusetts a few times this year so far. I went to school in Ohio, though. Closest I got to a tornado there was a day when the weather was bad enough that Cleveland was on watch, and I remember the sky turning gray, green, black, gray, green, black. Never actually saw a funnel cloud, though.

4. Have you experienced severe flooding? When and where?

Hoboken. 2012. I had to explain to my boss that I wasn't going to be able to get to the ferry terminal to get to the office because the water in the streets was up to thigh height and I didn't think I could wrap my legs in trash bags enough to walk through 3/4 of a mile of flood water.

5. What is the most extreme weather you have ever experienced?

Hoboken. 2012.

Second place goes to the winter I first moved to Massachusetts, when we had so many snowstorms in a row including at least one or two good blizzards that I was looking for the Wolf in the skies, because one of the first elements of Ragnarok is three winters together without a summer. One of my friends here in Massachusetts apologized to me with "you got a real New England winter... it just happened to be a Maine winter rather than a Massachusetts one."